Consequentialism says that right or wrong depend on the consequences of an act, and that the more good consequences are produced, the better the act. The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy gives a ...

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research was founded in 1940 by Marvin Farber, who edited it for forty years. Since 1980 it has been at Brown, where it has been edited by Roderick Chisholm and then, ...

Frank Jackson has put forward a famous thought experiment of a physician who has to decide on the correct treatment for her patient. Subjective consequentialism tells the physician to do what ...